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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1928
Page
4
The Department of Commerce report attributes modern prosperity to higher output per worker across mining agriculture manufacturing and railways, plus rising white collar employment. It cites a 55 percent population rise since 1900 but larger gains in output per worker and falling total worker numbers in core industries.
Opinion reflecting on gossip as the engine of newspapers and daily discourse. The piece traces gossip from a benign term among friends to a pervasive force shaping reading interests, noting its universality and social function across eras and cultures while observing evolving cigarette culture and modern habits.
An essay argues Sunday School teaching quality shapes faith and discipline. It notes gifted teachers, trained by programs or able to manage a lively class, influence children strongly from the primary department onward. The piece calls for broad support of teacher training and recalls enduring Bible lessons learned from family examples.
A critical reflection on widespread cigarette use, noting the hazards to furniture and fires from smoking in public spaces. The writer laments liberal attitudes toward fags and observes smokers tending to light up during meals and late at night.
Secretary Mellon projects continued economic strength as he reports the US gross debt at 17.6 billion dollars and a net Treasury balance near 260 million. He notes a debt reduction of about 905.9 million and a net addition of 27.6 million to the balance in the last year.
President Coolidge offers encouragement as he forecasts a $60,000,000 surplus for 1930. He promises no tax cuts now but expresses broad hope for the economy.
The story quotes Rich Huntington advising Homer Davenport to plant rubber trees to get rich. Davenport says he has no $10,000, and Huntington replies to wait and not bother until Davenport has it. The exchange emphasizes delayed effort and capital before action.
The old Spanish Trail is described as now open from the East Coast through Florida Texas the Gulf Coast to Arizona and Southern California with good roads. It notes only two ferries between Atlantic and Pacific and mentions traveling through Northern Florida and past San Antonio with the option to sleep outdoors until returning home.
Reports describe King George ill with fresh pneumonia and a royal mood shadowed by suffering. Lord Birkenhead lauds the king for serving the empire by restraint while dispatches note a somber palace music scene. Henry Ford builds an all metal office airplane for Lindbergh with multi engine power and modern interiors.
Robertson says America must expand its navy regardless of consequences. He recalls Germany in 1914 and supports strong armaments without external permission. He notes Britain once ruled the seas and vows to pursue self reliant defense as the nation asserts its power.
Readable medical guidance from Dr Frank McCoy author of The Newest Way to Health includes week long menus and custard recipe notes. It covers appetite, nervousness from diet and hygienic mistakes, and asks readers to request his curative diet article. An exchange asks about winter beach camping for health and the doctor advises fresh air without heavy coverings and suggests indoor sleeping with open windows for steady ventilation.
A reader asks why throat clearing recurs and the response cites catarrh or habit as causes. Mrs M V questions nervous indigestion, with an answer noting it stems from enervation due to excessive mental or emotional excitement.
By the Way in New York describes a frigid December night in Manhattan with bonfires on Orchard Grand Delancey and Houston Streets. The piece notes peddlers and push carts warming beside flames, and observes bread lines growing mainly with women due to factory shutdowns, highlighting hardship and resilience.
The record notes key dates such as Delaware ratifying the Constitution in 1787, President Washington’s final congressional address in 1796, Union forces burning Concordia Mississippi in 1862, the Confederate cruiser Alabama capturing the Ariel in 1862, and war declared on Austria in 1917.
Reader Q and A covers Greek shorthand specimens in major libraries, why frost forms at 40 degrees, a Montreal tunnel plan with four tubes 20 feet diameter and 1,000 feet long costing 2.5 million, and the Red Cross Mississippi flood relief final outlay of 17,498,902.16 with 16,994,868.61 spent across six states.
The text notes US relief allocations during Mississippi flood reactions in early 1928 and cites a Nation’s Business figure valuing US diamond ownership at four trillion dollars with 80 percent of world supply in America. It also details convict transport to colonies from 1717 to 1775 and explains pariah as a low caste member in Southern India and Burma, not the modern outcast sense.
Twenty years ago the eight county lodges of Rebekah gathered in Athens for their convention as a memorial service was held by the Athens Lodge of Elks. The report notes dry Ohio counties face closet surveillance under local option law and influenza closed schools in Columbus.
Puzzle presents a two border word with four unkeyed letters and clues for both horizontal and vertical entries. Includes definitions like close opposite superior hatred notional gnawing and notices of obstruction and stealth with scattered fragments and incomplete phrases.
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